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Ennead

@enneadau / enneadau.tumblr.com

A fem!Yugi universe!  www.archiveofourown.org/series/819942, Written by Joey Taylor: joeytaylorennead.carrd.co, I welcome asks I just might not give spoilers. Banner image by @zackpyo. Started Feb 15th 2011.

Ennead

Series Description:

Yugi was born a girl, inspired by the fact that I found out that Atem is in  fact commonly used as a girl's name. Yes I am aware of the fact that  mythology states that there was an Atem who was the father of Bast, but  once my brain had started ticking, well… here you go.
There will be 9 main stories in this series but I make no promises how many side stories and one shots will pop up by the time the series ends. This lines up with the 9 Gods and Goddesses of the Egyptian Ennead and is the reason for the series name.

Story Links:

  • Kemet -  Before the downfall, before Egypt went to hell, there was a Thief who wormed her way into the palace...  (Complete, One Shot)
  • Dishonour - Finally, after years of waiting... they've got him. (Complete, One Shot)
  • Jb - After the events of earlier, the Pharaoh and her Shadow need a moment alone. (Complete, One Shot)
  • Mahad’s Tale - The moment everything went wrong in Ancient Egypt as told by Mahad in chapter 3 of Kismet. (A comic of Mahad's side of the story by https://twitter.com/fullmoondraws. 1 page up so far.)
  • Season Zero -  After working on the Puzzle that her Grandfather gave her for eight years, Yugi finally managed to complete it. What she couldn't know was how much trouble one little trinket could cause… (Complete, 27 chapters)
  • In Sickness -  Jou has been ill and now Yugi has come down with the same sickness. Can  the spirit of the Puzzle, Oneesan work out what's wrong with her   Imoto-chan before the sickness takes it's toll?  (Complete, 1 shot)
  • For Those We Love -  A sudden attack out of nowhere leaves Yugi with no choice but to travel  to an island in the middle of nowhere and compete to save her Ojiisan's  soul. Can she defeat Pegasus, save everyone and somehow, finally, work  out how to interact with Oneesan, all without getting herself killed? (Complete, 27 chapters)
  • Refrain - Duelist Kingdom was hard on the Kaibas and Seto can't sleep.(Complete, 1 shot)
  • Kin -  After surviving Duelist Kingdom, Yugi is looking forward to getting back  to normality. Well, what passes for normal when you're the one who  completed the Millennium Puzzle, one of your friends is the host for the  spirit whose rampage ended your elder twin's reign back in Egypt and  old adversaries of your grandfather have moved into town.   (Complete, 15 chapters)
  • Kismet -  After a close call in a raging inferno, Yugi is left with more questions  than answers.  One thing is certain: as she is, she cannot win the  oncoming fight and with the future of the world at stake, she needs to  know more. Thankfully, looking to the future can sometimes give you  answers to the past... (Completed, 19 chapters)
  • Unwind -  A little relaxation is good for the soul.  (Set between chapters 5 & 6 of Kismet. Complete, 1 shot.)
  • Semestral - A collection of drabbles and one shots set in the time skip between Kismet and Battle of the Gods (Complete. 44 chapters)
  • Battle of the Gods - Battle City has arrived. Yugi and her twin sister, the Spirit of the Puzzle, need to compete to earn the keys to unlock the Pharaoh's missing memories and powers, but there is danger on the horizon. Will they reach their goal or will the sun set on them, and the world? (Posting, 23 chapters so far...)

The urge to share fanworks but the urge to make them Disappear and the urge to dump them in a pile and the urge to showcase them to everyone and the urge to Create and the urge to-

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This is a mood

The proud mother of eight royal heirs, and wife to Akhenamkhanen, Queen Tiamat of Egypt for @enneadau

Based on her looks in Side B and In the family flashback which Yugi and Meisa saw in Kismet, the red part of her hair may not have been seen due to the angle of the flashback, as well holding baby Thoth in her arms, alternativly having a slightly different hairstyle at that time 

She and her longest-living daughter, the Nameless Pharaoh, both followed the norm of their era when having their first child by being teenage mothers by modern standards, due to the shorter life-span of that time period

Both Tiamat and Seth’s mother charmed their respective husbands by their beautiful eye colours

Views Yugi as part of the family due to being half of her daughter’s split soul  

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Absolutely loving this. The lotus garden in Jb was hers before it was the Nameless Pharaoh's

I hope that my images and ideas can help you get a ground to flesh out Meisa's siblings if she and Yugi ever meets them at some point in-story pre-Ceremonial Duel, if so only to help setting up their core personalities :)

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They're wonderful, thank you, I will definitely consider them should there be a reason to have them meet the Mutou twins. For sure theyre certainly helping lift the bad mood I was in. :)

Prince Anhur, third son of Pharaoh  Akhenamkhanen and Queen Tiamat in the Ennead AU verse for @enneadau

If Khepri could have black and blonde hair without any red, then he can have a similiar type without the black, though it may look darker depending on lighting and angle. And his younger sister, the Nameless Pharaoh, is not the only one with those extra crazy hair strands sticking out

His purple eye colour is based on the mention on two of the brothers having purple eyes and one being red-eyed in the war camp flashback with their father

He is roughly somewhere in the middle in height between Khepri and Maahes, despite being fifteen years old when he died 

Ideas based on gift-fic We will always be with you, even if you do not remember: 

Anhur is functionally blind in the Afterlife, due to losing his left eye though the fatal arrow that was shot at him and his right eye took some damage during the battle as well. He uses a walking stick most of the time, even if he do have a very good mental map of the palace grounds after 3 000 years 

He and pre-operation Shizuka would undoubtly agree about how troublesome it is with tripping over things and risk getting injured because you can’t see, and being very annoyed with the whole “disability means helpless” idea from other people

Quite good at playing some musical instruments, because he have trained his hearing and other senses to make up for his blindess. Would likely be able to tell the voices of Yugi and Meisa apart on their speech patterns and their use of words, as well the mention of Meisa having a slightly deeper voice than Yugi

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I am loving all of these art pieces! Thank you so much!

Bonus Ennead fanart for you from Side B @enneadau

“When you win, please tell my idiot Shujin that what he’s looking for is in that vent that never closes right in our bedroom and that I left him a letter. Do warn him about the dust though.”

Youko’s ‘idiot husband’ was full of warmth and amusement and Yugi grinned back, noting that she had used ‘when’ not ‘if’.

This nickname from Yugi’s paternal Grandmother Youko Mutou, mentioned to be full of warmth and musement, was saying so much about her and Sugoroku’s relationship, and that she would likely have not been too friendly to Pegasus in Duelist Kingdom for the whole “kidnapping his soul and put his body in a coma”, as well something similiar for Kaiba about Death-T that caused his heart attack

I made her dressed in a kimono, based on the mention of Youko defeating Sugoroku in a game of Go when he stayed at her family mansion, which suggest that she was not from a working class background

Her brown eye color is meant to be a different, lighter shade than Amane’s, based on the DM anime 

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Oh wow!! Thank you! I love it! You caught her well. And no, she wouldn't have been happy with Pegasus at all!!

For you feeling that writing Ennead being hard right now. Some things that I look forwards in future Battle of the Gods chapters: 1) the Gang's reactions to hearing from Yugi that Atem helped her back, plus Meisa possibly having a very emotional moment at learning this because you know, her Twin brother! 2) the Ishizu/Hanaq duel against Kaiba that sure will be intensive in many ways 3) whatever will happen in the finalist duel with Ra under Ishizu's control. Can see Ra-Khu-Ra mutter something under her breath about "at least it is not ME this time he will attack!"

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Thank you for the support. I look forward to giving you the excitement you look forward to. It's going to be fun when I can finally get it out of my head. The finals are going to be different but fun, I hope.

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A recent commission for @enneadau !! ive never drawn fem-yugi before so this was so fun to do!

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This absolutely amazing artwork is for Till Death Do Us Part... my Rivalshipping marriage fic set around the time of Dark Side of Dimensions.

It IS rated Explicit, but only because of the occasional scenes between two consenting adults. So younger Ennead readers should avoid the fiction but get to see the awesome art!!!!

I will definitely be considering getting more art from @lord0f in the future!!

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FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

Prince Maahes, second son of Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen and Queen Tiamat for the AU crafted by @enneadau

If Khepri is the shortest brother, then Maahes is the tallest sibling of them all by taking after Akhenamkhanen in height, standing at about 175 cm in height despite being 16 ½ years old at his death

The idea behind his braided hairstyle, is that he is a sporty type of person, and especially enjoys swimming, knowing the importance of keeping his hair out of the face

The brother with the red eyes, as mentioned in the flashback with Akhenamkhanen and his teenage sons in the war camp

Ideas inspired from the gift-fic We will always love you, even if you do not remember:

He is the gentle giant among his siblings, as often proved by how he may carry his siblings around, either out of necessity or it is just plain faster that way. (Recalling Honda carrying both Mokuba’s soul-less body and the unconscious Ryo back to Anzu and Katsuya in the Duelist Kingdom part in the anime? That is how he may carry his brothers, his sisters is carried on his shoulders instead due to their size difference) 

Basically a less anxiety-burdened, male Luisa Madrigal in personality

He and Khepri often crafts roleplay-like miniature figures for Anhur, to help their blind brother use his sense of touch though his hands get a mental image of how Yugi, the Gang and other persons in the modern world looks like. 

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These are so awesome! You have really been capturing them :)

Dear Fanfic writers,

You don’t have to be the best writer, to write someone’s favorite story. You don’t have to be the best writer to tell a good story. And you don’t have to be the best writer to leave a lasting impression on your readers.

Some people have very technical writing styles, some very clinical, some very wordy, and some very poetic.

Both Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings tell an epic fantasy story, but each one is going to hit their readers differently. Leave their readers with a different emotional impact, and treat their readers to a vastly different writing and story telling style.

You could argue all day about which one is superior or better written. But at the end of the day, none of that matters, because someone’s favorite is not about the superior writing, but about the story and how it touched the reader. Some people needed a Harry Potter, and some people needed a Lord of the Rings.

Just like some people needed a Brahm Stoker’s Dracula, and some people needed a Twilight.

And when it boils down to fanfiction, you might not be the biggest fish in the fandom, but some people may need your Epic 250k Enemies to Lovers slowburn OR maybe they just need your self indulgent Coffee Shop AU.

Someone might need that Angst you wrote at 1am after a stressful event in your life. And someone might need that crack fluff fic you wrote on a whim because they needed a smile.

So if you’re a writer, please don’t give up.

Crown Prince Khepri, firstborn son of Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen and Queen Tiamat for the AU crafted by @enneadau

If canon!Atem could look badass in the Millenium World with jewelry and everything else to make him seem different from his “present” self as Yami and Yugi, so can Khepri also have some nice jewelry

The flashback of the teenage brothers with their father in Kismet mentions two of them having purple eyes and one being red-eyed, so he is one of the children with Tiamat’s eyes 

Ironically despite being the oldest, happens to be the shortest in height of his siblings outside Amunet and Nephthys who died at a mucn younger age, by sharing the same height as canon!Atem

Ideas inspired from gift-fic “we will always be there for you, even if you do not remember: 

Have a permanent limb on the right foot in the Afterlife, due to dying from a infection as his ankle was broken after he fell off his horse in a battle during the war. Walks with a cane for support of his balance and have trained himself to use it as a defence weapon

Has a Anicent Egyptian version of a “dartboard of hate” in his chambers, with the image of Shadi as the target, due to Shadi’s history of causing several of Yugi’s past lives to die 

Very good aim at tossing things, and would very much like to see how Yugi’s and Meisa’s enemies would keep demeaning them after getting a Kuriboh tossed to their faces so there is a explosion up in said face 

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I love all of this thank you!!

One of the most funny contrasts between Meisa and Ba-Khu-Ra in-story, outside all the drama and magical stuff, is this: Lost memories aside, Meisa is literally a mental time-traveler in how awkward she is with the modern world at first, while Ba-Khu-Ra have thousand of years of changing host bodies to learn the art of blending in and adjust to a changing world

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It's so much fun to write them and the way they interact with the modern age too. Even now, over a year after waking, Meisa has awkward moments while Ba-Khu-Ra gets to laugh about them.

Hi! The image of Khepri is more or less done and ready for posting over the weekend hopefully, it is my planned idea for Maahes' hairstyle that is causing trouble for drawing it, and no, the family hairstyle, aka the starfish style as Yugi called it in Season Zero, is not the problem!

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Thank you!!!